29-July-2015: ADAS-EU project highlighted on Horizon 2020 website

June-2015: PhD studentship at University of Strathclyde

We have a CASE studentship for a PhD student to participate in diagnostic analysis
at the MAST-Upgrade fusion device, under construction at the Culham Centre for
Fusion Energy (CCFE). The student will investigate mechanisms related to particle
and power exhaust with a novel Super-X divertor using sophisticated diagnostics to
explore the complex interaction between the plasma, solid surfaces, atoms and
molecules in the divertor region.

05-March-2015: Workshop to be held in Catania

02-January-2015: New ADAS post-doc

We are pleased to announce that Stuart Henderson has joined the ADAS team as
post-doctoral researcher.

08-November-2014: Recruitment

We have a two year, fixed-term, post-doc position available which would
suit a candidate with a strong atomic physics, impurity transport modelling and
programming background.
For the application procedure see the Vacancies section on the
University of Strathclyde
website with specific details about the post
here.

08-November-2014: 2014 Workshop Talks available

26-September-2014: 2014 Workshop Agenda

The final agenda for this years' workshop is now available.
There will still be an opportunity to adjust it during the meeting.

09-September-2014: 2014 Workshop Agenda

The draft agenda for this years' workshop is now available.
Note that, as usual, this will be adjusted by the time of the meeting. If you wish to give a presentation at the workshop, please contact us.

20-August-2014: Post-doc position at University of Kentucky

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research position
at the University of Kentucky, which will include extensive collaboration
with UK universities. The work will focus on the
formation of emission lines in a wide range of astronomical objects, including
Active Galactic Nuclei, Starburst galaxies, optical filaments in cool-core
galaxy clusters, H II regions, and planetary nebulae.

31-July-2014: Workshop hotel details

The venue for the workshop is no longer a Hyatt hotel because of a change of
management. There is no impact on the workshop, the location and arrangements
remain the same but the Hyatt website no
longer shows this hotel. Reservation details are here.

13-May-2014: Application closed

Applications for the post-doc position have been received and no further applications
will be accepted.

15-April-2014: Post-doc position in atomic physics at University of Strathclyde

A post-doctoral research associate position, based in the Department of Physics
at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, is available for up to 3 years to
work on theoretical and computational studies of atomic processes of particular relevance to magnetic
fusion plasmas. The main topic is dielectronic recombination of the tungsten
isonuclear sequence for ADAS modelling of the tungsten ionization balance at JET
and ITER. Details and contact information are
here or
here. The application
closing date is 11-May-2014.

17-March-2014: 2014 ADAS Workshop

Narodowe Centrum Badań Jądrowych will host the 2014 edition of the workshop
to be held at the HYATT REGENCY Hotel in Warsaw, Poland. The
dates are 28-30 September. The first announcement has been sent out and full
details are here.

23-October-2013: ADAS-EU Training Courses

The special Workshop/Advanced Training Courses in Europe have taken place
at MPG-IPP Garching, Germany 9-10 September, at ITER/CEA Cadarache, France
18-20 September and at the JET Facility, Culham Laboratory, UK
30 September – 3 October. The extended meeting at the JET Facility included introductory
presentations and final discussions marking the conclusion of the ADAS-EU
Project.

22-October-2013: Talks of the 2013 workshop

The email address to reserve a hotel room had a missing letter. The
correct address is
.
The reserved rate is available until 1st of August.

03-June-2013: 2013 ADAS Workshop

Forschungszentrum Jülich will host the 2013 edition of the workshop
to be held at the AVENDI Hotel in Bad Honnef, near Bonn, in Germany. The
dates are 1-3 September. The first announcement has been sent out and full
details are here.

03-June-2013: ADAS-EU Training Courses

The first of the ADAS-EU training courses has taken place at ASIPP, Hefei,
China. The next one will be hosted at NIFS, Toki-city, Gifu, Japan during the
week June 17-21, followed by a course at NFRI, Daegeon, Korea 22-26 July.
Further courses are scheduled in Europe and details will be announced later.

23-January-2012: Post-doc position in atomic physics at University of Strathclyde

A post-doctoral research fellow position, based in the Department of Physics
at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, is available for up to 3 years to
work on theoretical studies of atomic collision processes of particular
relevance to astrophysics. Preliminary details and contact information are
here.

06-January-2012: ADAS-EU training course in Padua, 26–30 March

The next ADAS-EU training course will be hosted by
Consorzio RFX
in Padua, Italy next March. This is a week long intensive course on using ADAS.
Full details at the ADAS-EU website.

08-November-2011: The 2012 Workshop will be hosted by CEA

The dates
for your diary are 23–25 September 2012 and the meeting will be
held at the chateau in Cadarache.

02-October-2011: Update to workshop agenda

20-September-2011: 2011 Workshop Agenda

The agenda for this years' workshop is now available.
As usual this may be adjusted a little by the time of the meeting.

A reminder that the conference rate for the hotel booking is available until Thursday and
can be requested via the hotel website. Full
details on the 2011 workshop page.

07-August-2011: 2011 Workshop

Organizational details of the 2011
workshop, to be held at Auburn University, Alabama, USA, have been
circulated by
email and are also on the website.

A 4 day training course will take place immediately after the workshop. Note
that we
will also hold an ADAS-EU training course in Europe towards the end of
the year.

05-August-2011: New ADAS post-doc in place

We are pleased to announce that Alessandra Giunta has been appointed
to a post-doc position starting immediately.

14-June-2011: Recruitment

We have a two year, fixed-term, post-doc position available which would
suit a candidate with a strong atomic physics background and a desire to apply
this expertise in support of the European magnetic confinement fusion research
programme in addition to electron-excited and photo-excited plasmas in
astrophysics. For the application procedure see the Vacancies section on the
University of Strathclyde
website with specific details about the post
here.

13-June-2011: Two new PhD theses on web site

Chris Nicholas and Alessandra Giunta recently completed their doctoral
studies. Alessandra's thesis on the spectral analysis of the solar atmosphere
and Chris' thesis on fitting special features can be found
here.

07-February-2011: The 2011 Workshop will be hosted by Auburn University

29-September-2010: Workshop agenda has been updated

17-September-2010: Latest version of the 2010 Workshop agenda

03-September-2010: Workshop 2010 agenda

The agenda for the ADAS Workshop 2010 is available
here.
Practical details are
here.

02-June-2010: ADAS Course at Auburn University, Alabama, USA

An ADAS course, similar to the annual ADAS-EU training course, will be hosted by
Auburn University between 6–9 July. Registration details and a schedule are here.
Contact Stuart Loch at Auburn if you wish to attend..

06-April-2010: Workshop 2010 announcement

The initial invitation letters for the ADAS Workshop 2010 and the ADAS-EU course 2010 are being sent out.
More details can be found here.

01-February-2010: Second ADAS-EU post-doc in place

We are pleased to announce that Luis Fernández Menchero is now working at the
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching as an ADAS-EU post-doc.

13-November-2009: Applications closed

Applications for the ADAS-EU position have been received and no further applications will be accepted. Candidates will be informed in due course about the decision.

21-October-2009: Recruitment

We are recruiting a new member of staff as part of ADAS-EU; further details are available on the
dedicated ADAS-EU website here. The position will
be based at IPP-Garching and will run until 31-December-2012.

21-October-2009: Workshop Talks online

21-August-2009: Workshop Agenda

A tentative agenda for the 2009 ADAS Workshop has been released, it is available here.

1-July-2009: Francisco Guzmán

We are pleased to announced that Francisco Guzmán has taken up post as an ADAS-EU Research Fellow, initially based at FZ-Jülich. More details about ADAS-EU can be found here and more details about Francisco are here.

17-June-2009: Workshop 2009 announcement

The initial invitation letters for the ADAS Workshop 2009 and the ADAS-EU course 2009 have been sent out. More details can be found here.

10-June-2009: Direct CVS Access

We are pleased to announce that we now allow CVS access to allow users to download ADAS code via CVS: virtual repositories have been created for specific tasks and these give full access to CVS histories and logs. The system is available here. Please e-mail us or put in a support request for an account.

13-March-2009: Applications closed

Applications for the ADAS-EU positions have been received and no further applications will be accepted. Candidates will be informed in due course about the decision.

12-February-2009: Recruitment

ADAS is recruiting two new members of staff as part of ADAS-EU, further details are available on the dedicated ADAS-EU website here.

12-February-2009: ADAS-EU Website

The ADAS-EU website has been officially launched, it is available here.

5-Janaury-2009: ADAS Workshop 2009

The data and time of the 2009 ADAS Workshop have been announced. The workshop will be at Schloss Ringberg in
Germany from 4 Oct to 7 Oct 2009. More details can be found here.

18-December-2008: ADAS V2.13 Released

ADAS V2.13 is currently in the process of being released to all sites.The corresponding bulletin is available here.

9-December-2008: ADAS-EU signed

We are pleased to announce that the ADAS-EU ("ADAS for Fusion in Europe") contract was signed on 5 December and the project will commence on 1 January 2009. ADAS-EU, is a Support Action, funded under the Framework 7 Programme of the European Commission, designed to enhance on-site atomic physics support to fusion laboratories across Europe and as a European contribution to ITER. It will be a four-year complementary activity to ADAS, managed by the ADAS team and employing three extra full-time equivalent persons.

8-December-2008: Adam Foster's PhD thesis

23-October-2008: Adam Foster

(Dr!) Adam Foster passed his PhD viva examination. Some very minor corrections need to be made to his thesis then it will appear on the ADAS website.

30-July-2008: OPEN-ADAS launch

The OPEN-ADAS system has been made public, the system can be accessed here.

4-June-2008: New ADAS domain

ADAS will now be using the domain "adas.ac.uk". This means our website URL is now http://www.adas.ac.uk. Future services like OPEN-ADAS and direct CVS access will also make use of this new domain.

3-April-2008: ADAS Workshop 2008

The data and time of the 2008 ADAS Workshop have been announced. The workshop will be at the Forschungszentrum Jülich in
Germany from 29 Sept to 2 Oct 2008. More details can be found here.

14-March-2008: New linking document

A new guide has been prepared detailing how to link ADAS
subroutines with programs written in Fortran, C and C++. It is
available here.

3-March-2008: Guiyun Liang started

Guiyun Liang has started his position at Strathclyde
working with Nigel Badnell on the large-scale production
of atomic data. We expect to work closely with Guiyun in
the calculation and dissemination of this data. Guiyun is
funded by a PPARC grant awarded to the UK APAP network,
more details can be found
here.

19-December-2007: ADAS online support form

An online support and bug reporting system is now available on the ADAS webpage here.
This form is integrated with our internal bug tracking system and we recommend using this for all bug reports or
ADAS support requests.

23-October-2007: ADAS Workshop talks available

The 2007 ADAS Workshop was judged to be a success with many talks and interesting discussions,
PDFs of all the talks are available here.

07-October-2007: ADAS V2.12 Released

ADAS V2.12 is currently in the process of being released to all sites.The corresponding bulletin is available here.

01-October-2007: Applications closed

Applications are closed for the position with Nigel Badnell.

21-August-2007: Postdoctoral position at Strathclyde

A postdoctoral position is available at Strathclyde working with
Nigel Badnell on R-matrix calculations in conjunction with other
institutions across the UK. While not an ADAS post, it is expected that
a close working relationship with the core ADAS team will result.

15-August-2007: Subroutine documentation

Headers for all the FORTRAN subroutines in the ADAS libraries are now online
here and also appear in Appendix B of the manual along with usage instructions.

27-July-2007: First invitations to ADAS Workshop

The first invitations have been sent out for the ADAS Workshop, copies can be
found here.

20-July-2007: F-like iso-electronic sequence

The first of the publications on doing R-matrix calculations across an iso-electronic sequence (making use of the automated code ADAS8#3) has been published:
"R-matrix electron-impact excitation calculations along the F-like iso-electronic sequence"
M C Witthoeft, A D Whiteford and N R Badnell
An abstract and PDF can be found here.

04-May-2007: Change of ADAS workshop date

The date of the ADAS workshop has been changed to 10 Oct - 12 Oct 2007.
See here for more details.

28-Mar-2007: Succesful divertor experiment

A highly succesful experiment led by Sebastijan Brezinsek and Andy Meigs
in conjuction with ADAS (Chris Nicholas and Allan Whiteford) was conducted
at JET. Of particular interest to ADAS are the visible deuterium series
spectra recorded which will form part of Chris Nicholas's PhD work.

14-Mar-2007: Partitioned data ready

Hugh Summers has passed over some of the new partitioned ADF11 data and subroutines to transport modellers for initial testing, after feedback and comment this will be released with ADAS for general use

5-Mar-2007: Neutral Boron Publication

"Electron-impact excitation of neutral boron using the
R-matrix with the pseudostates method"
C P Ballance, D C Griffin, K A Berrington and N R Badnell
An abstract and PDF can be found here.

26-Jan-2007: GCR Paper I in top 25 downloads

The Institute of Physics has just released the list of top 25 downloads for 2006. GCR Paper I: `Ionization state, excited populations and emission of impurities in dynamic finite density plasmas: I. The generalized collisional-radiative model for light elements' is among these papers. This paper describes much of the light element work contained in ADAS. The complete list can be found
here.

15-Jan-2007: New Website

The layout and content of the ADAS Website have been revised.

9-Jan-2007: Alessandra Giunta

Alessandra Giunta has started her PhD at Strathclyde. She was working with Alessandro Lanzafame on CDS spectra prior to this and will continue to focus on Astrophysics (particularly SOHO/CDS) and will also be working closely on data for iron. She will spend the first six months of her PhD based at Strathclyde and the remaining 2.5 years based at RAL.

12-Dec-2006: ADAS Workshop Talks Available

01-Oct-2006: Christopher Nicholas

Christopher Nicholas has started his PhD at Strathclyde. He will be working on special feature analysis with specific development work on the Balmer series limit feature. He will be based at Strathclyde but will make frequent visits to JET/UKAEA.

01-Sep-2006: ADAS V2.11 Released

ADAS V2.11 has been released to all sites.The corresponding bulletin is available here.

01-Dec-2005: ADAS V2.10 Released

ADAS V2.10 has been released to all sites.The corresponding bulletin is available here.

06-Jun-2005: ADAS V2.9 Released

ADAS V2.9 has been released to all sites.The corresponding bulletin is available here.